Universally popular VRMMORPGFPS anime Sword Art Online has at last obtained a VRMMO of its own thanks to gaming powerhouse IBM, with the game supposedly using a novel control system new to the gaming world – and given the usual results of such boastful claims, it could either prove to be revolutionary or the next rival to the Virtual Boy.

Initial statements by IBM have revealed that the game will utilize the player’s body as opposed to a physical controller, which – as any who have experienced motion-control before would know – might be rather less responsive in the real world than the developers might expect.

Applications are being accepted for a prototype alpha test, so those itching to witness this “breakthrough” in gaming technology can sign up now – the test is slated to be held in Tokyo between March 18th and March 20th, and only 208 applicants will be accepted.

VR is just fated to crash and burn at this point. The market for it isn't big enough, meaning not many companies are willing to pour in fortunes to create games for it, resulting in VR games being bland and unable to expand its market because no one's going to pay big bucks for a bland, headache inducing experience, loop to step one.

IBM works wit ha lot of mmo companies EVE online for example gets some of the newest hardware as its a good trial run for them as mmos can be very taxing on hardware so a VR mmo only makes sense to jump into for them

Eve Online is a good place to stress test hardware. Rendering thousands of ships shooting lasers, nukes and superheated plasma at each other in real time using data exchanged between server to users in multiple places around the globe is a very demanding challenge.

Planetside 2 especially still has a grind. It's grinding certification and the object you are grinding on happens to be other players.

Like it or not, in any MMO, including Eve Online, there will always be a grinding element. That is how these games keep you playing. You grind on something to unlock the next level. Even in Eve Online you will probably spend the early months of your life grinding missions, rats or asteroids as you wait for your skill queue so you have the money to buy a new ship once you got the prerequisite skills, or in order the gather the required capital to start a business.

Unless you happen to be part of a prosperous corporation with SRP, then chances are you will be grinding on structures so you can clear out that structure in order to put up your own structure over the moon.

So, you are saying that as a child, I dream of being screwed over by the God of Hope, Change and Ambition as I try to retrieve a very dangerous artifact of untold aeons from a forest infested with half-man creatures, myself armed with a beating stick and a small and vicious dog and infected with some kind of fantasy cholera, because I owed a lot of people a lot of money?